Police continue investigation despite 'vindication' claim

12:00AM BST 20 Aug 2001

NEIL HAMILTON claims he and his wife are "wholly vindicated" after reports that police are not going to pursue claims of sexual assault against them.

The former Tory minister says: "This entirely justifies the policy that we adopted in fighting these allegations in public." Mr Hamilton and his wife Christine, 51, have been accused of sexually assaulting mother-of-four Nadine Milroy-Sloan at a flat in Ilford, Essex, on May 5.

The couple denied the allegations, claiming receipts and phone records would prove their innocence. A report in the Sun claims detectives are no longer going to pursue the claims after records of a mobile phone call from Mrs Hamilton to her mother Megan show she was 13 miles away from Ilford at the time the assault was alleged to have happened.

But a Scotland Yard spokesman denied that the development meant they were going to shelve their investigation. He said: "The investigation goes on and inquiries continue."

Mr Hamilton said his wife had called her mother. He said: "She called her at around 5.44pm when we were on our way from our flat in Battersea to Claridges. It was probably just after we got into the car from the flat."

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He condemned the police for not looking at their phone records sooner. Mr Hamilton, 52, said: "We are relieved. This has been the most ghastly week that anyone could possibly imagine." Earlier the woman at the centre of the sex allegations stepped into the public spotlight and insisted she had "nothing to hide".

Ms Milroy-Sloan, 27, waived her right to anonymity and said: "I am prepared to stand up and be counted."